Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s Work

In this chapter, I will problematize the way in which “work” is tradition- ally conceived in order to articulate a critique to limits and perspectives of comparisons involving women’s work. On the above-mentioned assumptions, regarding women’s representation and factual relation with work, and in order to “decenter comparative analysis in a globalizing world,” the analysis will deepen these key issues: social representations of work and their effects on the analysis of unpaid domestic and care work; the invisibilization of women’s work; structural connections between paid work and unpaid domestic and care work, and intersectionality of race and class.